I wake up sour, fuckin hate Tuesdays you don't have that have that fresh start like Monday and the end is a long way from where you are now, or when I should say.
Another thing is the dreamless sleeps I have, sure there are no nightmares but the last thing I want is a flat-line when that's what I'm trying to escape from.
I get dressed (only barely remembering deodorant). I go down for some toast, my Dad barely lifts his head for a hello. I nod and head out, honestly I should have woken up earlier, I know he doesn't leave for work until he knows I'm gone, (don't know if i should find that sweet or insulting). School is only a minute away, which is probably the only reason I haven't been marked late just yet. All the faces are familiar, of course they would be I have known these people since middle school.
For the most part my school is ordinary. You have the usual hierarchy. The bottom would be myself, the top would be shared between Alex and Miranda, who would give my siblings a run for their money. Their not typical, this is the real world.
They both share their positive energy as nothing can threaten their position.
Yet why are these people here? Points... I guess I should go into more detail. My school is a new public project by the state. Essentially each student has an app of sorts that counts points, points which are gifted according to an arbitrary system. Sometimes we are told and sometimes we aren't about what gives us points.
At the end of each year's second year graduation the student with the highest points gets a scholarship to Balmont, a school praised for its quality of education but scorned for its exclusivity of membership. Yet here is the catch, the points are currency and no one knows how much points each other's peers have. What you can buy isn't specified by the school, I do know you can buy food and well... better grades (I'm sure you can guess how I know.)
Honestly I only see the points as a means to make my dull life a bit more bearable. As that thought comes through my mind I use the points to buy some soda from the vending machine outside my classroom, it is barely touched, the stickers aren't faded at all.
There is no doubt the system is working.